Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Rowan.

I see the moment she shuts her emotions down. The moment the warm look she had just a few

seconds ago turns cold. Which leaves me cold.

“What are you doing here?” Ava asks her voice monotonous as I push my way into her house.

It’s like she was talking to a stranger. Like I was nothing but a speck of dust and nothing more. I stare at her unable to come up with anything. I’ve lived with this woman for almost a decade and

yet right now I can’t find the right words.

I look at her hand still in a sling. I came to check up on her and also to pick Noah. It was the

weekend so it was my time with him.

Remembering the man that I saw leaving, my brows furrow. He must be who the smile was for.

That little piece of realization makes my jaw clench.

“What was he doing here?” I ask instead of answering while trying to hide the unreasonable anger

I was feeling.

I get the guy is an officer and that he saved her life but he was crossing a line. I didn’t fucking like

him and I didn’t want him anywhere near Ava.

“That’s none of your business” she retorts.

“It is my business when you’re entertaining.men this early in the morning with my son in the house….did he sleep over? Is that why I saw him leaving?”

The thought of that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The last thing I want is for her to be exposing Noah to men months after we separated. It wouldn’t leave a good impression on the type

of woman she is.

She gives a humorless laugh, pulling me back to the present.

“It’s not any of your fucking business…do you see me meddling in your life while you’re busy entertaining Emma? And isn’t it hypocritical of you to stand there judging me?”

I glare at her. “Emma is different”

“How so?” she first feigns puzzlement and then her face lights up as if she figured out something. but I know it’s mockery. “Oh, I forgot she’s the love of your fucking life”

I grind my teeth She was starting to piss me off. What the hell was wrong with her? It’s like she

has something against me.

“I’ll never do anything that would affect Noah but I’m a single woman and I will have whoever!

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to start dating I’m not planning to stay single

at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my core making me want to hit something or

breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans banging while

honesty I’ve never been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very different

continue walking. I find her in the kitchen wiping down the

at me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t

nothing but pure venom? It’s like all she wants is to strike at me

Ava, I came for Noah” I

awake yet and you could have done what you always do Honk You

come in”

She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something

wait for him while

she fists the

As long as we follow the terms of

sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and

For me to be out

in frustration “I’m not the one who

house. It seems all she wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not when I was

look, it came at the perfect time, just when Empia comes back to town Now

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always a sour subject but I never lied to her. Never led her on. She

years ago, then she

do you want me to say? You know I never lied to

throws the dishtowel down angrily. “That didn’t stop you from using my body did it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what

to scratch an itch. I took vows and despite the fact I didn’t love her. I wasn’t going to break them by cheating on

past, I’m here to talk about Noah”

going round and round. I needed to say

did something I

her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead she opens one of the

of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she

and swallows.

I realize

arm?”

Rowan… we both

she

and all

I’m just stating the truth. Are you going to talk? If not

Noah is wakes up”

clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from me as if my touch

me!” she

was going to behave from now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s throats? We had a

childish behavior is one of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the better

colder than I could ever

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came to say then get out of my fucking house. I won’t have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior doesn’t concern you, we are divorced…so if

give them to

a while. We glare at